About us:
The Student Conservation Association (SCA) is the largest provider of hands-on environmental conservation programs for youth and adults. Program participants protect and restore national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, marine sanctuaries, cultural landmarks, community green spaces, and much more across the country.

Program Description:
The AFWO houses four programs: Ecological Services, Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation, Habitat Restoration, and Science Applications. Our work spans the beautiful towering redwoods of northwestern California, the foggy shores of the Pacific, and includes majestic watersheds such as the Klamath River.  The major duties of interns will be conducting breeding season surveys of the federally threatened distinct population segment of western snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) throughout Humboldt County. Surveys require determining population estimates of breeding adults, recording color band combinations of individual plovers, locating nests and recording nest fates, observing western snowy plover chicks through fledging, public outreach, and entering survey data into databases. Other duties will involve assisting with the creation of a range-wide western snowy plover database, analyzing data, helping to manage files and records, and working with other state, federal, and public partners.The Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office in Humboldt County, California is offering two, paid SCA internships to work with western snowy plovers during the 2024 breeding season! Please share the attached flyer with any prospective candidates.

The internship will be 30 weeks (March 11 – October 16) and will provide those looking to break into the wildlife field a chance to work for a federal agency with a listed species, and the many partners that have dedicated their careers to snowy plover recovery. https://myjobs.adp.com/scacareers/cx/job-details?reqId=5001015395906

Josefine Fleetwood (She/Her), Employer Relations Manager

Oregon State University | College of Engineering  

School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering

School of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering

116 Johnson Hall  - Room 112

541-737-7286

Josefine.fleetwood@oregonstate.edu